Is it possible to get a "straigth" car??

rachaelf750

I have been searching and searching high and low for a diesel car under €4500 for the past 3 weeks and I'm finding it next to impossible to find a car which hasn't been messed around with in some form or another.The amount of car we have rang and viewed is making me wonder will I ever find a car??? :mad::(:(

Ardennes1944

straight? yup

rachaelf750

Bad spelling due to the stress of looking for a car,opps;)

Anan1

Three weeks isn't that long to be looking, finding the right car at the right price can take time. Are you sure you're asking enough/the right questions on the phone?

mickdw

Maybe you are trying to get into a type/age of car that will only be got in a rough state for your budget.

What car/age are you looking for?

Gumbo

mickdw wrote: »

Maybe you are trying to get into a type/age of car that will only be got in a rough state for your budget.

What car/age are you looking for?

+1

ive had so many people say to me when i was selling my old cars, "jex its expensive isint it", then they go view the other cheaper cars, and they come back!

only recently i sold my 2002 320d SE in less than a week to the first fella that viewed it then went off after i didnt discount it enough. he offered, i said no and we went our ways. 6 days later he rang back and said, listen i know why yours is priced like that now, can i come and collect

OP, what exactly are you looking for? what make and model?
ie. theres no point saying ive looked at 10 cars with my 3.5k and no one was clean when the average selling price of clean versions of that car are selling for 5k!

rachaelf750

Anan1 wrote: »

Three weeks isn't that long to be looking, finding the right car at the right price can take time. Are you sure you're asking enough/the right questions on the phone?

In total I have spent the last 3 weeks and before that 3 weeks in july,so in total about 6 weeks.

I'm deff asking the right questions but not getting the right answers:pac:

rachaelf750

kceire wrote: »

+1

ive had so many people say to me when i was selling my old cars, "jex its expensive isint it", then they go view the other cheaper cars, and they come back!

only recently i sold my 2002 320d SE in less than a week to the first fella that viewed it then went off after i didnt discount it enough. he offered, i said no and we went our ways. 6 days later he rang back and said, listen i know why yours is priced like that now, can i come and collect

OP, what exactly are you looking for? what make and model?
ie. theres no point saying ive looked at 10 cars with my 3.5k and no one was clean when the average selling price of clean versions of that car are selling for 5k!

Hoping to get a car no older than 2003 and I have considered Toyota(avensis),Aud(a4),Ford(mondeo),Skoda(octavia).

mickdw

You should have your pick of mondeos with that budget

rachaelf750

mickdw wrote: »

You should have your pick of mondeos with that budget

This is very true but I would love to get a toyota,but lovin and getting are two different things!!!!:pac:

coylemj

Are you concentrating on private sales only or looking at dealers as well? If you're looking at dealers, are you avoiding main dealers or checking out both independent and main dealers?

Tell us also what sources you're looking at (donadeal/carzone/newspapers etc.)?

L-M

A diesel? Straight? under €4.5k? No.

Anyone that has a good one is keeping it, you'll just have to look very hard, any good ones get snapped up very quickly

Kev_ps3

Ive been looking for a car the past couple of months aswell, my conclusion is most people on donedeal are idiots and Irish people dont look after their cars. Ill prob have to go the the UK because they are such mongs.

rachaelf750

Another week gone and several car viewed,but none worth buying.I think it's time to go across the water.

MarkR

Where are you located?

johnos1984

I think anything within that budget is going to be a bit rough around the edges given your budget.

People are willing to pay way over the odds for a diesel car at the minute

rachaelf750

MarkR wrote: »

Where are you located?

I'm located in Co.Louth

knotknowbody

Good diesels are hard to find in that price range but they are there, just recently I bought an Avensis in Meath for €4000, it is a 2004 and is spotless, bought it private but had spent about 4 weeks looking, if your in Louth there is a local free ads mag that I found useful.

It's hard in the north east area as people are selling northern cars as well and sometimes a car will seem reasonably priced in it's ad and then when you ring you realise you need to add vrt.

For Forks Sake

rachaelf750 wrote: »

I'm located in Co.Louth

Up over the border with you http://www.usedcarsni.com

rachaelf750

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Up over the border with you http://www.usedcarsni.com

I got my last car over the border(passat) and I would buy over the border again.It's just finding the right car.

newme2006

i was looking for a car for a month and found it frustrating, ok i had a bit more to spend but its all relative..

first thing.. write out a list of what you want, then screw it up and throw it away.. chances are you wont get exactly what your looking for, esp diesel, you can great cars on petrol for thousands less than i was spending spec'ed to the last but as soon as you ticked the diesel box, the choices were few and far between.. its prob worth noting that the significance of diesel cars only came about in the last few years before that petrol wasnt the evil fuel of choice so more cars were bought petrol afaik.. hence another reason why older are so hard to find.

good luck.. i feel for you!!

AndrewBond

Why so desperate about diesel? Older diesels are not that nice to drive as newest ones, fixing them might be very expensive and price difference between diesel and petrol version of the same car would cover your fuel expenses anyway.